| slovo | definícia |
borough
(mass) | borough
- mestský obvod, štvrť |
borough
(encz) | borough,čtvrť Zdeněk Brož |
borough
(encz) | borough,městský obvod Zdeněk Brož |
borough
(encz) | borough,samosprávné město Zdeněk Brož |
Borough
(gcide) | Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [See Borrow.] (O. Eng. Law)
(a) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to
the king for the good behavior of each other.
(b) The pledge or surety thus given. --Blackstone.
Tomlins.
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Borough
(gcide) | Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town,
burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS.
& D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth.
ba['u]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save,
defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill,
mountain. [root]95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow,
Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor,
Hauberk.]
1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also,
a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a
body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain
district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain
jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village,
as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. --Erskine.
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2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a
borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
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Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the
right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination
is in the hands of a single person.
Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the
time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained
but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a
member to Parliament.
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borough
(wn) | borough
n 1: one of the administrative divisions of a large city
2: an English town that forms the constituency of a member of
parliament |
BOROUGH
(bouvier) | BOROUGH. An incorporated town; so called in the charter. It is less than a
city. 1 Mann. & Gran. 1; 39 E. C. L. R. 323.
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
borough
(mass) | borough
- mestský obvod, štvrť |
borough
(encz) | borough,čtvrť Zdeněk Brožborough,městský obvod Zdeněk Brožborough,samosprávné město Zdeněk Brož |
boroughs
(encz) | boroughs,samosprávná města n: Zdeněk Brož |
gainsborough
(encz) | Gainsborough, |
marlborough
(encz) | Marlborough,Marlborough n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
pocket borough
(encz) | pocket borough, n: |
rotten borough
(encz) | rotten borough, n: |
scarborough
(encz) | Scarborough,Scarborough n: [jmén.] příjmení, město - Trinidad a
Tobago Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
winsborough
(encz) | Winsborough, |
marlborough
(czen) | Marlborough,Marlboroughn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
scarborough
(czen) | Scarborough,Scarboroughn: [jmén.] příjmení, město - Trinidad a
Tobago Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
Borough-English
(gcide) | Borough-English \Bor"ough-Eng"lish\, n. (Eng. Law)
A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and
tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest;
or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.
--Blackstone.
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boroughhead
(gcide) | Headborough \Head"bor*ough\ Headborrow
\Head"bor*row\(h[e^]d"b[u^]r*[-o]), n.
1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary,
consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder,
boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes
tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
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2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Boroughhead \Bor"ough*head`\, n.
See Headborough. [Obs.]
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Boroughhead
(gcide) | Headborough \Head"bor*ough\ Headborrow
\Head"bor*row\(h[e^]d"b[u^]r*[-o]), n.
1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary,
consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder,
boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes
tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
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2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Boroughhead \Bor"ough*head`\, n.
See Headborough. [Obs.]
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boroughholder
(gcide) | Headborough \Head"bor*ough\ Headborrow
\Head"bor*row\(h[e^]d"b[u^]r*[-o]), n.
1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary,
consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder,
boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes
tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
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2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Boroughholder \Bor"ough*hold"er\, n.
A headborough; a borsholder.
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Boroughholder
(gcide) | Headborough \Head"bor*ough\ Headborrow
\Head"bor*row\(h[e^]d"b[u^]r*[-o]), n.
1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary,
consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder,
boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes
tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
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2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Boroughholder \Bor"ough*hold"er\, n.
A headborough; a borsholder.
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Boroughmaster
(gcide) | Boroughmaster \Bor"ough*mas"ter\, n. [Cf. Burgomaster.]
The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.
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Boroughmonger
(gcide) | Boroughmonger \Bor"ough*mon"ger\, n.
One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
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Boroughmongering
(gcide) | Boroughmongering \Bor"ough*mon"ger*ing\, Boroughmongery
\Bor"ough*mon"ger*y\, n.
The practices of a boroughmonger.
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Boroughmongery
(gcide) | Boroughmongering \Bor"ough*mon"ger*ing\, Boroughmongery
\Bor"ough*mon"ger*y\, n.
The practices of a boroughmonger.
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Close borough
(gcide) | Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town,
burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS.
& D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth.
ba['u]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save,
defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill,
mountain. [root]95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow,
Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor,
Hauberk.]
1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also,
a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a
body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain
district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain
jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village,
as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. --Erskine.
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2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a
borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
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Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the
right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination
is in the hands of a single person.
Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the
time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained
but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a
member to Parliament.
[1913 Webster]Close \Close\ (kl[=o]s), a. [Compar. Closer (kl[=o]"s[~e]r);
superl. Closest.] [Of. & F. clos, p. p. of clore. See
Close, v. t.]
1. Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.
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From a close bower this dainty music flowed.
--Dryden.
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2. Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters. "A
close prison." --Dickens.
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3. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a
feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc.
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If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and
doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the
other maketh it exceeding unequal. --Bacon.
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4. Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close
prisoner.
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5. Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden. "He
yet kept himself close because of Saul." --1 Chron. xii. 1
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"Her close intent." --Spenser.
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6. Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent. "For
secrecy, no lady closer." --Shak.
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7. Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact;
as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as
applied to liquids.
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The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the
water made itself way through the pores of that very
close metal. --Locke.
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8. Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning. "Where the
original is close no version can reach it in the same
compass." --Dryden.
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9. Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; --
often followed by to.
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Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall.
--Mortimer.
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The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very
close thing -- not a faint hearsay. --G. Eliot.
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10. Short; as, to cut grass or hair close.
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11. Intimate; familiar; confidential.
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League with you I seek
And mutual amity, so strait, so close,
That I with you must dwell, or you with me.
--Milton.
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12. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.
"A close contest." --Prescott.
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13. Difficult to obtain; as, money is close. --Bartlett.
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14. Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a
vise." --Hawthorne.
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15. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact;
strict; as, a close translation. --Locke.
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16. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating;
strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.
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17. (Phon.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of
the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French,
Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
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Close borough. See under Borough.
Close breeding. See under Breeding.
Close communion, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted
to those who have received baptism by immersion.
Close corporation, a body or corporation which fills its
own vacancies.
Close fertilization. (Bot.) See Fertilization.
Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones
composing each chord are not widely distributed over
several octaves.
Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or
catching certain fish is prohibited by law.
Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a
diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of
the cavity of the mouth.
Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point
from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail;
closehauled; -- said of a vessel.
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Free-borough men
(gcide) | Free \Free\ (fr[=e]), a. [Compar. Freer (-[~e]r); superl.
Freest (-[e^]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre['o], fr[imac];
akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[imac], G. frei, Icel.
fr[imac], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija
beloved, dear, fr. pr[imac] to love, Goth. frij[=o]n. Cf.
Affray, Belfry, Friday, Friend, Frith inclosure.]
1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under
restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's
own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's
own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
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That which has the power, or not the power, to
operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
--Locke.
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2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject
only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and
defended by them from encroachments upon natural or
acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
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3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
of parents, guardian, or master.
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4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
liberated; at liberty to go.
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Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior.
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5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
of the will.
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Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
--Milton.
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6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
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My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden.
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7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
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He was free only with a few. --Milward.
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8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
bad sense.
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The critics have been very free in their censures.
--Felton.
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A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
--Shelley.
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9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
as, free with his money.
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10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or
troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; --
followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
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Princes declaring themselves free from the
obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet.
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11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;
easy.
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12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
spirited; as, a free horse.
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13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying
certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special
rights; -- followed by of.
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He therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
Free of his farm. --Dryden.
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14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed
without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed,
engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to
be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
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Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you? --Shak.
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15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
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16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending
individual rights against encroachment by any person or
class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a
government, institutions, etc.
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17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of
base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill.
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18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.
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19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free
carbonic acid gas; free cells.
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Free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting
freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.
Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold
lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
Free board (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and
gunwale.
Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or
bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.
Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg.
Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the
jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the
king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.]
--Bouvier.
Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or
statical condition; free electricity.
Free church.
(a) A church whose sittings are for all and without
charge.
(b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of
Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the
government in spiritual matters.
Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in
its government and franchises, as formerly those of the
Hanseatic league.
Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. --South.
Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of
formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways."
--W. Black.
Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty.
Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from
that of slaves.
Free port. (Com.)
(a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free
of custom duty.
(b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from
ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.
Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a
brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer
or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds.
Free school.
(a) A school to which pupils are admitted without
discrimination and on an equal footing.
(b) A school supported by general taxation, by
endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for
tuition; a public school.
Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were
not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to
perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum
of money, etc. --Burrill.
Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war
are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.
Free socage (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain
services which, though honorable, were not military.
--Abbott.
Free States, those of the United States before the Civil
War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never
existed.
Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.
Free thought, that which is thought independently of the
authority of others.
Free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff
regulations.
Free trader, one who believes in free trade.
To make free with, to take liberties with; to help one's
self to. [Colloq.]
To sail free (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in
as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the
wind.
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Gainsborough hat
(gcide) | Gainsborough hat \Gains"borough hat\
A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble
those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English
artist (1727-88).
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Harborough
(gcide) | Harborough \Har"bor*ough\ (-[-o]), Harbrough \Har"brough\
(-br[-o]), n. [See Harbor.]
A shelter. [Obs.]. --Spenser.
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Headborough
(gcide) | Headborough \Head"bor*ough\ Headborrow
\Head"bor*row\(h[e^]d"b[u^]r*[-o]), n.
1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary,
consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder,
boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes
tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
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2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]
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Herborough
(gcide) | Herborough \Her"bor*ough\, n. [See Harborough, and Harbor.]
A harbor. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. Herbose |
Pocket borough
(gcide) | Pocket \Pock"et\ (p[o^]k"[e^]t), n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF.
poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche;
probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf.
Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
garment for carrying small articles, particularly money;
hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
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2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
which the balls are driven.
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3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
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Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a
sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity,
the articles being sold by actual weight.
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4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of
board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
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5. (Mining.)
(a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or
other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a
cavity.
(b) A hole containing water.
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6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a
batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
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7. (Zool.) Same as Pouch.
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8. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
specif.:
(a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c) A bight on a lee shore.
(d) a small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally
filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.
(e) (Dentistry) a small space between a tooth and the
adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the
gum from the tooth.
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9. An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast
to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an
affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered
territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
[PJC]
10. (Football) The area from which a quarterback throws a
pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the
defensive players of his own team who protect him from
attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket
to choose an open receiver.
[PJC]
11. (Baseball) The part of a baseball glove covering the palm
of the wearer's hand.
[PJC]
12. (Bowling) the space between the head pin and one of the
pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point
at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a
strike.
[PJC]
Note: Pocket is often used adjectively in the sense of small,
or in the formation of compound words usually of
obvious signification; as, pocket knife, pocket comb,
pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief,
pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.
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deep pocket or
deep pockets, wealth or substantial financial assets.
Note: Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to
find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able
to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be
judged due to him. This contrasts with a
"judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets
nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary
damages would be uncollectable and worthless.
Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.
Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under
Borough. [Eng.]
Pocket gopher (Zool.), any one of several species of
American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys,
family Geomyd[ae]. They have large external cheek
pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit
North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the
Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.
Pocket mouse (Zool.), any species of American mice of the
family Saccomyid[ae]. They have external cheek pouches.
Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys),
and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the
Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.
Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not
spent.
Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.
Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole
authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges
in the exchequer. --Burrill.
[1913 Webster]Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town,
burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS.
& D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth.
ba['u]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save,
defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill,
mountain. [root]95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow,
Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor,
Hauberk.]
1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also,
a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a
body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain
district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain
jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village,
as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. --Erskine.
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2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a
borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
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Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the
right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination
is in the hands of a single person.
Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the
time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained
but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a
member to Parliament.
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Rotten borough
(gcide) | Rotten \Rot"ten\, a. [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan.
radden. See Rot.]
Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten
meat. Hence:
(a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
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You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek of the rotten fens. --Shak.
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(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous;
unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of
the rotten way." --Knolles.
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Rotten borough. See under Borough.
Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli
(from the country from which it was formerly brought),
used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the
arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is
also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to
like uses.
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Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound;
corrupt; deceitful; treacherous.
[1913 Webster] -- Rot"ten*ly, adv. -- Rot"ten*ness,
n.
[1913 Webster]Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town,
burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS.
& D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth.
ba['u]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save,
defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill,
mountain. [root]95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow,
Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor,
Hauberk.]
1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also,
a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a
body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain
district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain
jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village,
as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. --Erskine.
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2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a
borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
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Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the
right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination
is in the hands of a single person.
Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the
time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained
but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a
member to Parliament.
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Third-borough
(gcide) | Third-borough \Third"-bor`ough\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
An under constable. --Shak. Johnson.
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borough
(wn) | borough
n 1: one of the administrative divisions of a large city
2: an English town that forms the constituency of a member of
parliament |
borough english
(wn) | borough English
n 1: a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited
land to the exclusion of his older brothers |
duke of marlborough
(wn) | Duke of Marlborough
n 1: English general considered one of the greatest generals in
history (1650-1722) [syn: Churchill, John Churchill,
Duke of Marlborough, First Duke of Marlborough] |
first duke of marlborough
(wn) | First Duke of Marlborough
n 1: English general considered one of the greatest generals in
history (1650-1722) [syn: Churchill, John Churchill,
Duke of Marlborough, First Duke of Marlborough] |
gainsborough
(wn) | Gainsborough
n 1: English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788) [syn:
Gainsborough, Thomas Gainsborough] |
pocket borough
(wn) | pocket borough
n 1: a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the
land is owned by a single family |
rotten borough
(wn) | rotten borough
n 1: an English parliamentary constituency with few electors |
thomas gainsborough
(wn) | Thomas Gainsborough
n 1: English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788) [syn:
Gainsborough, Thomas Gainsborough] |
BOROUGH
(bouvier) | BOROUGH. An incorporated town; so called in the charter. It is less than a
city. 1 Mann. & Gran. 1; 39 E. C. L. R. 323.
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BOROUGH ENGLISH
(bouvier) | BOROUGH ENGLISH, English law. This, as the name imports, relates exclusively
to the English law.
2. It is a custom, in many ancient boroughs, by which the youngest son
succeeds to the burgage tenement on the death of the father. 2 Bl. Com. 83.
3. In some parts of France, there was a custom by which the youngest
son was entitled to an advantage over the other children in the estate of
their father. iller. Rep. mot Mainete.
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HEAD BOROUGH
(bouvier) | HEAD BOROUGH, English law. Formerly he was a chief officer of a borough, but
now he is an officer subordinate to constable. St. Armand, Hist. Essay on
the Legisl. Power of Eng. 88.
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